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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Jordan Alexander, Forbes Powell, Mark Hagen, Jeff Guckian, Bobby Warren
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 832-837
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1209
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Tents meeting current thickness and uniformity/roughness specifications are needed to position ICF target-capsules inside hohlraum assemblies. We have developed a vacuum-forming technique to mold less than 100nm-thick polyimide films into partially-conforming capsule-tents. Characterization of the tents has been performed by an in-house metrology system designed to measure their roughness-and thickness-distributions. This paper will review the results of our tent-forming technique and the characterization of these tents surrounding capsules in hohlraum assemblies.